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QuickReach: Building a Chrome Extension with Header Modifications
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Like many others, I use LLM every day to learn new things, ask questions or to translate contents. I like to use different LLMs as they have their own pros and cons. The problem is that I have to switch different tab frequently, which I don’t enjoy. While exploring, I discoursed Google Chrome has a feature call sidebar. I wondered if there was any collection of LLMs that I could access and use directly. It turns out that even the paid one can’t be use this way. I tried multiple plugins, but most of them required for me to paid and it’s not native (They were using APIs behind the scenes and they are charing for it). Eventually, I decided to create my own.
My use case is quite simple. I want to quickly access different LLMs without switching different tabs. I want to use Chrome’s Sidebar to open and hide the side bar with keyboard shortcut. On the left side of the sidebar, I want to add icons that people would be able to quickly access it…
